wraithlike
Example Sentences
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This time around, the wraithlike Bill Skarsgård is our back-from-the-dead avenger.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2024
The fog bank grew taller, like accumulating wealth, then broke up into twisting wraithlike ribbons as it was buffeted and caressed by currents.
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2018
“Chaos beckons,” Mr. Bartlett gently sings, but he’s belying the orderly intricacy of the music’s Minimalistic fabric of propulsive, gamelan-like bell tones, string-ensemble chords and pizzicati and wraithlike backing vocals, transparent yet rigorous.
From New York Times • May 18, 2018
There is, in short, something hollowed out in “Spectre”—a hint of something not quite there, as wraithlike as the title suggests.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015
Near the central star there may be a retinue of dead worlds, the remnants of planets once full of life and now airless and ocean-free, bathed in a wraithlike luminance.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
